A computational tool for the simulation and optimization of microbial strains accounting integrated metabolic/regulatory information

BioSystems

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 435-441

  Vilaça, Paulo ^a   ocha, Isabel ^a   Rocha, Miguel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Integrated models; Metabolic engineering; Metabolic models; Open source; Regulatory models; Software tool

Indexed keywords

GENOME; METABOLISM; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; SOFTWARE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; SIMULATION;

EID: 79751525708     PISSN: 03032647     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2010.11.012     Document Type: Article

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